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Oct 27, 2026
· 4 min read
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Truro Legion's annual poppy campaign underway
Original article ↗What we measured
Outlets covering
2
Lean bands spanned
2
Widest spread
Center → Center-Right
Verdict
Unverifiable
Key figures
Roughly $995,000 was raised across Nova Scotia last year.
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B.I.A.S. ANALYSIS
CENTER RIGHT
Where the 2 outlets covering this sit
Center
50%
Center-Right
50%
None framing
Center majority
2-outlet cluster
Broad pickup
Signal breakdown
Heuristic (v1/v3)
-0.20 · CENTER
ML v2 (DistilBERT)
0.279 · RIGHT
Ensemble
0.279 · CENTER RIGHT
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Rolling outlet bias
CENTER
avg -0.192
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7-day bias trend
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Truro Legion's annual poppy campaign underway
Donations stay in the community and support veterans, their families, and youth
Author of the article:
By Aidan Rawding
Published Oct 27, 2026
Vesta Brown, right, and her mom, Darlene Chaplin collect donations for the poppy campaign in The Hub Shopping Centre on Oct. 26. The Truro Legion is running its poppy campaign until Nov. 10.
TRURO – Vesta Brown’s involvement with the Truro Legion’s poppy campaign is personal.…
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